Catherine 'Kate' Charlotte Maberly (1805 – 7 February 1875) was an Irish writer.

Biography

Born Catherine Charlotte Prittie in November 1805 in Corville, Tipperary, Ireland, Maberly was the daughter of Hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie and Elizabeth Ponsonby. Her brother Henry Prittie became the 3rd Baron Dunalley of Kilboy when their uncle, Henry Sadleir Prittie, died childless. She married William Leader Maberly on 11 November 1830.

Catherine Maberly

Maberly was a novelist who wrote predominantly historical fiction though she also wrote some non fiction. Maberley's 1851 novel The Lady and the Priest is about the life of King Henry II of England, and his relationships with his mistress Rosamund Clifford, and his antagonist, Thomas à Becket.

Catherine Maberly

She is buried in Cowes on the Isle of Wight with her only son, William Anson Robert Maberly.

Catherine Maberly

Bibliography

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The locket ; or, the history of Mr. Singleton

Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale

The lady and the priest. An historical romance

Fashion and Its Votaries

The Present State of Ireland and Its Remedy

Leonora

The art of conversation with remarks on fashion and address

Leontine, or the Court of Louis the fifteenth

The Grand Vizier's daughter. An historical romance of the fifteenth century

Melanthe; Or the Days of the Medici

A day near Turin : an opera in two acts

The Love-Match

References

1805 births

1875 deaths

19th-century Irish novelists

19th-century Irish women writers

Irish historical novelists

Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages

Women historical novelists

Daughters of barons